Steam for Linux

TF2 on Debian lags badly, yet Ubuntu with the same driver and it can max.

I despise and hate ubuntu, I have used Debian and FreeBSD for years. It wasn't long before I was fed up with Ubuntu and moved back to Debian to set up steam and all is well, the only problem is that it lags like hell unless everything is at lowest and the resolution is 800x600 and windowed. Yet on Ubuntu I could max everything and at 1360x768 without a problem. I'm using nvidia's proprietary driver for the 9500GT as I were in Ubuntu. Has anyone got any suggestions? I'd greatly appreciate it.

The driver is exactly the same, I don't see a reasonable motive to get a bench mark on both. I rid Ubuntu for Debian anyway, I tried messing around with the nvidia settings as the sticky mentioned to disable an option to increase performance but it hasn't affected it at all.

Vendor should be Nvidia, and the version string is the driver version.

If you don't see this, then you're missing the glx drivers for Nvidia. Type in the following command to install them: "apt-get install nvidia-glx". If you're running 64 bit Debian, you may as well install the i386 version of the drivers as well, since TF2 is undoubtedly 32 bit (apt-get install nvidia-glx:i386)